Posts Tagged ‘Breaking the Silence’
Israel Moves Another Step Nearer Being a Police State – Even for Jews
Plan to Outlaw ‘Breaking the Silence’ the group which reveals Israel’s war crimes The reality of the most benign occupation in the world Settler colonial societies, be it Israel, Algeria or South Africa, always created a certain democratic space for the settler population. The indigenous population were always faced with a racist police state but…
Read MoreQuestion for Amnesty International – Is your Israeli offshoot still collaborating with the Israeli state?
What kind of state you might ask creates a fake offshoot of an internationally renowned charity in order to try and prevent that charity criticising it? A police state would be the obvious answer. Most western democracies are not to perturbed about human rights organisations that operate on their territory. Israel however bans people from for example Human Rights…
Read MoreThe Middle East’s Only Self Declared Democracy Refuses Visas to Human Rights’ Watch
What has Israel got to hide (apart from torture, internment, extra-judicial executions & state-sponsored child abuse)? It’s strange to think but some people still classify Israel as a democracy The effective functioning of civil liberties and human rights groups, free from state interference in their activities, is the hallmark of a democracy. In Israel civil…
Read MoreThe Attack on Israel’s Human Rights Organisations by the State
When Israeli Jewish Opponents of the Occupation are Targeted for attack the Israeli Labour Party Offers its Support Ezra Nawi – arrested Human Rights Worker The article below in Israel’s 972 Magazine illustrates graphically the attack on Israeli human rights organisations and groups which oppose the Occupation and highlight its casual brutality. Ezra Nawi has been detained,…
Read MoreThe ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Steps Up Hate Campaign Against Breaking the Silence & Israeli Human Rights Organisations
As the Israeli state makes giant strides from a Jewish state to a Jewish Police State, so left-wing Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv. There is no doubt that the Israeli left, the anti-war left, is extremely isolated today. When the Israeli Labour Party/Zionist Union leader, Isaac Hertzog, asked Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn incitement and threats…
Read MoreThe Israeli Government’s Campaign to Silence Breaking the Silence
Legislation Proposed to Stop Foreign Funding of Israeli Human Rights Organisations No government likes to be taken to task over human rights abuses. Most deny, as a matter of instinct, that any such abuses have taken place. But it is only the worst of the worst governments seek to destroy or cripple the very organisations…
Read MoreAttacking NGOs Who Tell the Truth
One of the myths of Israel’s right is that the Supreme Court is a liberal Arabist institution – whereas it has presided over waves of confiscations and expulsions Israel – the transition from ‘democracy’ to dictatorship / Noone should be surprised that ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ is fast jetissoning even the pretensions…
Read MoreHotoveli – Israel’s new Acting Foreign Minister and Supporter of Racial Hygiene
Tzipi Hotoveli – Israel’s new religious Zionist Deputy Foreign Minister Racial hygiene under another name – for Hotoveli it is another holocaust Israeli Government Attacks the Messenger It was of course utterly predictable. How does the Acting Foreign Minister, the religious nutcase Tzipi Hotovely, defend the most moral occupation the world has ever seen? By…
Read MoreBoard of Deputies Treasurer Laurence Brass Resigns to Speak Out on Israel
Shocked by What he Saw on the West Bank Laurence Brass (left) next to war criminal Blair, Rabbi Sacks and Israel’s far right ambassador Ron Prossor The Board of Deputies of British Jews has an appalling record on most issues. In the 1930’s it told Jews to keep their heads down and stay indoors as…
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